Try telling that to the fans, Shaun. They’re three bus stops beyond moderation. They’ll see your moderation and raise you growing hysteria.

The fans will fill every seat in Oracle Arena for the 143rd straight game. Last, week, a ticket for the Lakers game could be bought on Stub Hub for as little as $110, according to a spokesperson. Monday afternoon, the cheapest ticket was $259, for a nosebleeder.

Sunday night’s telecast on CSN Bay Area scored a 9.58 rating, the highest of any Warriors’ game ever, higher than any game during last season’s playoffs, when the Warriors stormed to the NBA title.

In fact, the three all-time highest-rated Warriors’ games on CSNBA have been during the current streak. And the Warriors are scheduled to be featured on 26 national telecasts this season, easily a team record.

Fans get in gear

Team merchandise is being devoured by locusts with credit cards. At the arena, Stephen Curry jerseys and all other Warriors’ items are selling at double the rate of last season, according to the Warriors. Online sales of team gear is up 760 percent from last season. Seven-six-oh.

The imitation championship rings the Warriors gave away as a recent game promotion? They’re on eBay for $300.

Raymond Ridder, the Warriors’ longtime vice president of communications, says he rarely has to turn down media-credential requests for a regular-season game, but has had to do so for Tuesday’s game. And it’s just Game 16 of 82, in a regular season that is a mere prelude to the playoffs.

It’s weird. It’s almost as if, even after the Warriors won the title, many fans and media were withholding their belief in the greatness of this team. Now the 15-game win streak — by an average winning margin of 14.4 points — has caused reality to set in like a sonic boom.

So far, they’re epically good. Sometimes, the Warriors almost seem to be playing with their opponents. Sunday in Denver, center Festus Ezeli clanged a dunk attempt off the back rim and the ball caromed 30 feet in the air to Curry, who fired up a three-point shot, nothing but net. Should Ezeli get an assist?

No hangover here

It seems like hazy nostalgia to think back to the start of this season, less than a month ago, when NBA experts and Warriors’ coaches and players were fretting about the danger of championship complacency. Winners’ hangover.

Apparently, that danger is no longer in play. The confidence gained from winning the title, combined with the excitement of the streak, have boosted the Warriors to a higher level of dreaming and digging.

“I think we’ve gotten greedy, but a good greedy,” forward Draymond Green said Monday. “I think it’s way better to be greedy for success than hung over by success.”

Embroider that into a sampler and hang it on the wall. Or sell it in the Warriors’ store.

Green, one of several deep thinkers and philosophers that make this team so interesting off the court, also put the whole streak thing in perfect perspective.

“I mean, it matters, but it doesn’t matter, if you know what I’m saying.”

Sorry, folks, the Draymond Green bobblehead that will be given to fans at the turnstiles Tuesday night does not come with a voice feature.

33 not yet in sight

One thing we’re all learning here is, everybody loves a streak. If the Warriors win Tuesday, hysteria will only grow. How many in a row can they win? The NBA record for consecutive regular-season wins is 33, by the ’71-72 Los Angeles Lakers, a team that featured Jerry West and Wilt Chamberlain.

When 33 was mentioned to Green, he said, “It’s too early to talk about 33. (Pause) What’s 33?”

Green hadn’t been aware of that Lakers’ streak. Now he is, and the new knowledge inspired him to go all Einstein-relativity on us. The Warriors’ regular season streak is actually 19, counting four wins at the end of last season.

So follow along with Green’s math: “Fifteen is a lot closer to 16 than 19 is to 33. So we gonna focus on the 16.”

Scott Ostler has been a sports columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle since 1991. He has covered five Olympics for The Chronicle, as well as one soccer World Cup and numerous World Series, Super Bowls and NBA Finals.

Though he started in sports and is there now, Scott took a couple of side trips into the real world for The Chronicle. For three years he wrote a daily around-town column, and for one year, while still in sports, he wrote a weekly humorous commentary column.

He has authored several books and written for many national publications. Scott has been voted California Sportswriter of the Year 13 times, including six times while at The Chronicle. He moved to the Bay Area from Southern California, where he worked for the Los Angeles Times, the National Sports Daily and the Long Beach Press-Telegram.